Passepartout Duo’s performance focuses on spatializing sound in space through a set of unique electronic instruments that they have designed and constructed over the course of their residency at CYENS Thinker Maker Space. These handmade instruments work together with one another, and the performers, as an ecosystem of interdependent creatures. The odd compositional logic that is presented by each of the machines the duo has created also serves as a starting point for the off-center grammar of the music, where the musicians are tasked with learning and elaborating a new lexicon within a hybrid soundworld between human and machine logic.
Passepartout Duo is composed of Nicoletta Favari and Christopher Salvito.
Their work attempt to reimagine how we approach sound, often borrowing materials, processes, or concepts from other disciplines. The two musicians have been designing and building original musical interfaces as a ground for the exploration of innovative collaborative ways of composing and performing music.
The duo is inspired by old and new technologies alike, which are explored either in live music settings, where the original performativity of them as a keyboardist and a percussionist still bear visible trace, or as room-size sound installations. An ongoing thread of research is represented by their interest in polyrhythmic structures, electromagnetic fields, and acoustic feedback.
Having been traveling continuously for nearly six years now, this way of creating music always on the go and in different contexts brought us to develop a certain ecosystem of instruments that need to be portable and flexible. Recently, the wish of exchanging musical ideas in a more substantial way with other musicians we encounter on the road has brought to develop new strategies for improvisation, strongly building on idea of sharing musical instruments on stage and mixing the acoustic and electronic dimensions.
Website
passepartoutduo.com
Instagram
www.instagram.com/passepartoutduo
Passepartout Duo’s performance focuses on spatializing sound in space through a set of unique electronic instruments that they have designed and constructed over the course of their residency at CYENS Thinker Maker Space. These handmade instruments work together with one another, and the performers, as an ecosystem of interdependent creatures. The odd compositional logic that is presented by each of the machines the duo has created also serves as a starting point for the off-center grammar of the music, where the musicians are tasked with learning and elaborating a new lexicon within a hybrid soundworld between human and machine logic.
Passepartout Duo is composed of Nicoletta Favari and Christopher Salvito.
Their work attempt to reimagine how we approach sound, often borrowing materials, processes, or concepts from other disciplines. The two musicians have been designing and building original musical interfaces as a ground for the exploration of innovative collaborative ways of composing and performing music.
The duo is inspired by old and new technologies alike, which are explored either in live music settings, where the original performativity of them as a keyboardist and a percussionist still bear visible trace, or as room-size sound installations. An ongoing thread of research is represented by their interest in polyrhythmic structures, electromagnetic fields, and acoustic feedback.
Having been traveling continuously for nearly six years now, this way of creating music always on the go and in different contexts brought us to develop a certain ecosystem of instruments that need to be portable and flexible. Recently, the wish of exchanging musical ideas in a more substantial way with other musicians we encounter on the road has brought to develop new strategies for improvisation, strongly building on idea of sharing musical instruments on stage and mixing the acoustic and electronic dimensions.
Website
passepartoutduo.com
Instagram
www.instagram.com/passepartoutduo
